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When an ancient artifact dissolves in the hands of a man calling himself Mr. Veilleur, he knows something has gone wrong...terribly, cosmically wrong. Dr. Roderick Hanley, Nobel Prize-winning geneticist, dies in a plane crash. His last words: "The boy! They'll find out about the boy! He'll find out about himself!" When Jim Stevens, an orphan and struggling writer, learns that he is the sole heir to the Hanley estate, he is sure he has at last found his biological father. But he's only half right. The true nature of his inheritance—and the truth about his conception—will crush him. In New York City a group of Charismatics has been drawn together—without invitation, simply showing up at a Murray Hill brownstone—with a sense of great purpose. Satan is coming, and they have been chosen to fight him. Mr. Veilleur too has been drawn to the group, but he realizes it's not Satan who is coming. Satan would be a suitable au pair compared to the ancient evil that is in the process of being Reborn. Tor is reissuing the third title in the Adversary Cycle, The Touch, in July 2009.
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This was kind of a miss for me. I enjoyed the Keep and I enjoy the Repairman Jack series but this one felt off. I think it was some of the pacing that did it. We had a lot of build up going on of events going on with Jim, Carol, and Bill, but then the third act of the book was just one event stacked up on another. It was almost as if Wilson realized he needed to get to the planned ending and had to tie a lot of threads together.
Maybe if I had read this after reading The Tomb and The Touch first I might have liked it better. However it does look like this was planned as a middle of the series book as the ending doesn't have a full resolution so I may try to give Reprisal a shot in the future.
Series
6 primary booksAdversary Cycle is a 5-book series with 5 primary works first released in 1981 with contributions by F. Paul Wilson.
Series
1 released bookThe Secret History of the World is a 33-book series first released in 1981 with contributions by F. Paul Wilson and Laura Knight-Jadczyk.